Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1929, Page 17

Washington News he Foening Star, 'WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Society and 'G”efiera'l .0 HEADSPLA THORDUGH STLDY *OF EADOL NEEDS Commissioners Have Re- served 3 Days for Review of Estimates in 1931 Budget. DR. BALLOU TO EE ASKED TO ATTEND CONFERENCES Action Is Deferred Until Requests of Other Departments Have Been Passed. With the tentative 1931 financial budget for the District nearly one-third completed, the Commissioners an- nounced today that they intend to give the estimated needs of the public schools 'MOTHER SEES SON, 6, STRUCK AND SERIOUSLY HURT BY AUTO, Frank Hettenkemmer Run’ Down by Car on | Street Northeast. | | Driver Is Released After Sub- mitting to Test of Brakes. | | Little B-year-old Frank C. Hetten- amer of 1430 Trinidad avenue north- | t is in a critical condition at Sibley | Hospital from injuries suffered last night, when run down in front of 1224 | street northeast by an automobile operated by Elmer T. Adams. 30 years | old, of 10 Quincy place northeast.” The child was rushed fo Casualty Hospital by Adams and later transferred to Sibley on advice of the family physician, Dr. Henry W. Yager of 700 East Capitol street. Piysicians_at_the hospital said the the brain in addition to numerous pain- lad was suffering from concussion of | FF WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY.. MAY 30, 1929. ful body bruises and possible internal injuries. He is said to chance for recovery. According to the child's mother, Mrs. little Frank, his mother said. darted from behind a parked automobile and ran directly into the path of Adams’ machine. ~Mrs. Hettenkemmer, who have a fair BONES DISCOVERY | REVIVES ARGUMENT ON PRIMITIVE MAN Skeleton Buried in Texas River Bank Studied by Scientists. ~ | | | | | | | ARCHEOLOGIST BELIEVES IT PALEOLITHIC DEPOSIT: Curator of Anthropology Disputes; Evidence of Earlier Race Than Indians in America. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A crushed human skeleton. appar- ently very primitive and buried under 70 inches of soil in a Texas river bank, \ PAGE 17 NAN DIES AFTER BLOW FROM ST VETERAN S LD Albert Kirby, .30, Killed in Fight on Pennsylvania Avenue. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE MADE PENDING INQUEST Forest F. Damron, Ex-Service Man, Given Medical Treatment Following Attack. | Forest Fletcher Damron, 35-year-old | veteran of the World War, was booked {on a charge of manslaughter this | morning after a blow from his fist felled promises to reopen the controversy over of man in America. in to_the | yhich Washington scientists have taken | | a drinking companion in front of the more consideration than ever before. ! Atlas Hotel, 601 Pennsylvania avenue, On the calendar of budget meetings | the Commissioners have reserved three | Cecelia Hettenkemmer, the boy. who is a kindergarten student at the Wheatley School, Montello avenue and Oates Said she witnessed the accident, saw | her child knocked forcefully [the antiquity full days for a painstaking and thor- ough_review of the school cstimates. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of ‘schools, and members of the board of education, will be invited to sit with the Commissioners and go over the school items in detail. Conferences Deferred. The conferences on the school esti- | mates have been deferred. however. | until the requests of virtually all other | municipal departments have been passed upon and assigned to the ten- | tative budget. the dates for the meet- ings having been fixed as June 10, 11 and 12. The decision to devote three full days to consideration of the needs of the schools is the result of recent agitation | to have the Commissioners adopt a | “hands off” policy with respect to the | school estimates and send them to the Budget Bureau without modification. While the Commissioners declined to agree to such a procedure, on the theory that Congress gave them au- thority to pass upon the financial re- quests of all municipal departments and expects them to do so, the new plan of hgndling the school estimates is in effect a form of compromise. Ask for $13,724,500. ‘The schools have asked for $13.- 124,500 in the 1931 fiscal year. an in- crease of $1,820,902 over the appropria- tion provided for the coming fiscal year July 1. There is little doubt that the Commissioners will find it necessary to trim the 1931 school fig- ure, as proportionate reductions are being made in the estimates of all other District _departments, but the amount to be allocated to the schools has not yet been determined and probably will ot be fixed until the three-day con- rence between the Commissioners and school officials. | street northeast, was playing in front | | of the I street address where the mother was visiting friends, with sev- eral other children. The mother said she was sitting in the front yard when she heard some of the children yell. “Look out, here comes a drunken man.” The children quickly scattered and ' street and dragged several feet before the car was brought to a stop. The boy's father, Frank A. Hetten- kemmer, is manager of a branch store of the Sanitary Grocery Co. in the northeast. section. After reporting the incident to po- lice, Adams submitted his car to brake test and was released. MAN IS RECOVERING WARRANTS ISSUED AFTER RVER DNE. N DETZ SHOOTING Franz H. Ridgeway Injured Washington Man Accused When Car Leaps Seawall Into Potomac. Although eritically injured vesterdav | afternoon when his automobile went out of control and plunged over the West Potomac Park seawall into the Potomac River, Franz H. Ridgway, 52, secretary of the Corcoran Fire Insurance Co.. was reported on the road to Tecovery at Emergency Hospital today. Mr. Ridgway was driving south around the Polo Field when his ma- chine hit an irregularity in the’paving, throwing him against the top of the car and causing him to lose control. | The car shot over the wall and settled in shallow water, half submerged. with | { | i of Attempt to Kil, Three | Others as Aids. Claiming to have learned the identity of the person who early Monday shot | Willlam Dietz, 35, at the Prince Georges Inn, Thomas Garrison, a special offi- cer, last night obtained a warrant for | A Washington man, charging assault] and attempt to kill. At the same time Garrison obtained | warrants for three other Washingto- nians on charges of being accessories to the assault, The warrants were issued by Justice of the Peace John | Sainger of Hyattsville. Garrison has been conducting an in- vestigation indepgndent of that of the | Prince Georges police force. He ex-| a prominent part. ! Dr. Walter Hough, curator of an- | thropology ef the National Museum, has | just returned from Central Texas, after inspecting these fossil bones. He found them in such a condition, however, that he would not venture an opinion on | their age. Dr. Cyrus N. Ray, president | of the Archeological Society of Texas, ie convinced that the skeleton is that of a human being who_inhabited that part of America in paleolithic times, possibly even that of a pre-human pre- | cursor of man. | Found by Cowboy. The skeleton came to light when a cowboy found two human femur hones | protruding from the bank. He called it to the attention of local archeologists, who were struck by the peculiar geo- logical formation and proceeded to ex- | cavate. They found the bones lying | under 170 inches of soil in 6 clearly | defined strata, which showed evidence of not, having been disturbed since they | were laid down. The skeleton was folded at the hips in jack-knife fashion. Nearly all the | bones were in place, including a com- plete skull cap and a lower jaw with all the teeth. This skull lay flat under a| large stone which had crushed it so that an sxpert in physical anthropology will be required to rebuild it. Dr. Ray's preliminary examination indicated that there was very little space in the skull above the level of the eye-brows, which he interprets as indicating a brain which had not quite reached the human level. Parts of the skull were unusually thick. The geological history of -the site in- dicates that the body first was buried about two feet deep in a stratum of sandy clay loam. Then the river over- flowing. its banks through a period of many thousands of years placed the C In Georgetown, which CONERESS CHURH WL CELEBRATE Congress Street Methodist Congregation Will Observe Centennial Sunday. Preparations of the Congress Street Methodist Protestant Church, Thirty-first between M and N streets, to celebrate this Sunday the centennial anniversary of its dedication, have been completed. The church, one of the old- est places of worship in the District and an outstanding landmark of George- town, will obsgrve with impressive serv- jces the passage of a full century of independent existence. By an odd coincidence. the centennial ;:mlverury actually falls on the Sab- th. Services Will Be Broadcast. Morning_ services, -conducted by Rev. H. A. Kester, pastor, will be broadcast over WRC. A greeting from the Maiy- land Annual Conference will be extend- ed to the parish upon attaining its The inset NGRESS STREET METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH. will celebrate its centennial Sunday. is Rev. H. A. Kester, the pastor —Star Staff Photo. | BODY OF BOY IS FOUND. Appeared to Have Been in Water Two or Three Days. ; The body of an unidentified colored | boy about 10 years of age was found | | floating in the water near pier 2 at the | | navy yard this morning by employes of a navy yard tug. The body was nude vard officials said, and appeared to have been in the water about two or three days. The coroner and police were no- | | tified. | | Workers at the yard expressed the | belief that the boy had gone in bathing jand was in a nearby stream when he| | met, his fate. | An effort will be made by police to| establish identification through 1 | | |of the Anacostia Bridge last Sunday | and which were identified the following | day as belonging to Leo Magruder. 11- | traffic light installations was expressed | year-old colored boy. living at 905 Third | street southeast. ~The boy’s mother | identified the clothes as those worn by | her son. who has been missing from home since last Sunday morning. | WO MORE PLOTS the | on | clothes of a boy found at the north end | [IGHT INSTALLATION DELAY SUGGESTED Brandenburg Urges Study of | Effects of Signal Controls’ on Traffic. The opinion that District. trafic au- thorities should “make haste slowly” in proceeding Wwith additional automatic by Edwin C. Brandenburg, geperal | Trade, in a discussion before a mceting of the trade body's trafle committac’ yesterday at the City Club. Mr. Brandenburg urged that a study | be made by the traffic authorities as to | the effects of present traffic ligh's’on | movement of traffic before extensive additional instaliations are made. Proposes “Mass” Transportation. He proposed that real efforts be made counsel of ‘the. Washington Board of | _ The latter, Albert Kirby, 30, of 2005 Benning road northeast, an-employe of the Navy Yard, was removed to Emergency Hospital by two taxicab op- erators, where he was pronounced dead. | An inqueést will be held. probably to- morrow, to determine if death was due to the fall. Retired After Midnight. Damron told police he, Kirby and several others had been drinking, and that he retired to his room on an upper | floor of the Atlas Hotel some time after | 3 i v, Damron said, subsequently came to his door, knocked and asked if any one had seen his automobile keys. Damron replied in the negative, and the man on the outside, according to Damron, became incensed and shat- tered the glass in the door, then went ownstairs. Damron claimed he followed to seek an explanation, accosting Kirby at the doorway of the hotel. Words led to plows between the two, and Damron said-he struck Kirby, knocking him off a.concrete step at.the entrance. Dam- Ton said Kirby fell heavily, but that he was not aware he was badly injured, so went to gei medical attention for an injured left hand. ' Seeks Physician. When Headquarters Detectives H. K. Wilson and O. W. Mansfield, accom- panied by Policeman Hugh Robey, ar- Tived" at the scene the injured man had - been: removed and Damron had vapished. They learned Damron had gone in quest of Dr. R. B. Bacon. living 2" Hotel near Union Station, and fol- lowed him there. . Dr. Bacon, however, had taken Dam- ron to -his office in the Bond Building, | Fourteenth street and New York ave- | nue, to place a plaster cast on a pre- ADDED TOTRIANGLE Mr. Ridgway sitting unconscious be- | pects the men named in the warrants | other five sojl strata on top of it, There | hundredth anniversary by Rev. E. C.| ‘o promote mass transportation, by | Sumably fractured 1eft thumb. Damron The estimates of the schools always have received more consideration from the Commissioners than those of other departments due primarily to the fact that the school needs'usually make up one-third of the total municipal budget. but the practice in the past has been to review the school requests in one day. When reductions were deemed neces- | sary, the estimates were returned to | the school board with instructions tp make cuts that would keep the figure within a preseribed limit. the Commis- sioners feeling that schoo] officials, be- ing more familiar with the needs of the | system, could trim where it would have the least effect. This year, however, the reduction will be made in the presence of thet school officials and with their advice. Bulk of Work Remains. Two weeks of budget making have taken the Commissioners through the | estimates of more than a score of the municipal departments, but tiaose of the major departments are vet to be considered. ~ Aside from the schools, these include the Board of Public Wel- fare and the Police and Fire Depart- | ments. | The public welfare items will be re-| viewed Monday. when the Commission- | ers resume the budget-making task.| ‘These are expected to be disposed of in one session, but the Commissioners will not hold another budget meeting until the school estimates are taken up a week later. Public hearings by the zon- ing commission and other important | municipal activities next week will pre- | clude budget, sessions in that period. Welfare Items $5,914,100. hind the wheel. to be apprehended today. was no evidence that any of these The motorist was _extricated by Marion Rice, 2650 Wisconsin avenue, who was fishing from_a rowhoat just off the seawall. and by Policeman Frank T. Cajn of the park police. Rice heard the crash and rowed to the automobile. Announcement that _anpther a; o Although police admitted the re- volver had been found. they declined to disclose where or by whem, or the lv;;ver had beem found also was made | e At first Mr. Ridgway ‘was thought to have suffered a fractured skull, a sup- position discounted by later examina- tions. He is believed to have internal | injuries, however. The American Automobile Association rigged a_block and tackle and hauled | ihe machine from the river vesterday | forts to run down persfstent rumors afternoon. Henry Jenkins, 16-year-old Western |in an automobile which was wrecked a | messenger. Quarles street mortheast, was injured early last night as a result of a col- lision between his bicycle and the'auto- | County police since Monday. No effort mobile of James Slaughter, 1013 Seven- | has been made by them. however, to Sizteenth and K | have its ownership traced through its A passing motorist took Jen- { kins. to Emergency. .Hospital, w! | was given first aid by Dr. Walter Glad- | boy was severely shocked Union teenth street, streets. ding. The at MESSENGER INJURED IN CRASH WITH AUTO |Henry Jenkins, 16, Treated at| Emergency Hospital After Acci- dent at Sixteenth and K. The public welfare items total $5.- and his hand bruised. £14,100. These include the estimates of | the Board of Public Welfare, the penal | institutions, hospitals and training | schools. The respite in the budget making Traffie Policeman William A. Schotter received slight about 7 o'clock injuries Jast night when residing | weapon’s caliber. e police foday were continuing | their efforts to run down persistent | rumors that additional victims of the | |affray were being treated ‘“under | ‘eaver," The police were continying their ef- | that additional victims of the affray were being treated “under eover’ The county officers also were inform- | ed the shooting was the aftermath of | & recent hijacking. Several men ‘“in the business’ came to the inn early Monday morning to stage a party and were surprised later to see persons they | “had met before” enter the estahblish- ment. according to the story told police. Dietz, struck three times by bul | Hospital. to be “better.” A revolver believed to have been the | one used in shooting Dietz was found condition today was said | at 4907 | short distance from the inn after the | shooting. It is a new weapon and has been in the hands of Prince Georges | serial number at the local detective | IAN FLYERS |PERUV to his Pdi 2 his strata except the last had been dis- turbed. OJld inhabitants say that the river overflows about once in 15 years. | Age Tt Disputed. { The burial is doubtless very old. Dr.| Hough says. but he is not convinced | that it is more than a few thousand | years: old while the Texas archeologists | would place it from 50,000 to 100.000 ( years in the past. This would indicate that a race of primitive men inhabited America _before the coming of the Indians from Asia, which is known to have occurred not more than 10.000 years ago. What became of the ancient race, if it existed, nobody knows. The description of ‘the skeleton given by the | Texas investigators is roughly similar to that of the celebrated Neanderthal man of Europe, who is believed to have lived just before the coming of, true men, the ancestors of the present human race, but who already had reached a very crude culture. There have been s0 many disap- | points, Dr. Hough said, that anthro- pologists are loath to pronounce any skeletal material found in the West- ern Hemisphere extremely old. The combination of a skeleton primitive in appearance and the - geological strata indicating great age is always worthy of investigation, but both may be pure- Iy accidental. Thus there are human beings living today with extremely primitive skulls and from -the earliest ;lum‘esl the dead were disposed of by rial. Will Study Site. | Expeditions from _the American Museum of Natural History and from the University of ‘California will study the site this Summer in the hope of securing -more - material. There are | given the occasion by { motor cycle skidded in front of 2020 t Fourth street northeast. He HEAD SHIP SOUTH | ! some indications that it was an ancient camp site, either of an Indian tribe Makosky of Baltimore, president of the | conference. Prof. Elmer Louis Kayser. secretary of George Washington Uni- versity, will speak on the reminiscences of the church, reviving many of its past scenes and history. Dr. T. H. president. emeritus. of Western Mary- and College, at prezent a resident of ‘Washington, will deliver the sermon. Reading of Records. The services in the evening, ‘which are to be broadeast over WISV, will clude greetings from Wisdom D. Brown, grand master of Mason of the District of Columbia. and are to be featursd | by an address by Senator Shortridge of California. f Additional interest will be found in a reading of the record of .the corner stone laying as inserted in the original minute book of Potomac Lodge, No. 5. F. A. A. M.. of June 2, 1829, by John | . Lewis, | | Property of Mrs. Naom'g Hollis Is Purchased for $103,260.30. Two more pieces of property have | been purchased in the Federal trianzle between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall_for - the Government's building program. Through the nffice of the supervising architect, Treasury Department, the Government has acquired from Mrs. the intersection at Tenth street and Louisiana avenue for the sum of $103,260.30. ‘This property is facing the E. Chrisman, present master of the | lodge. Further impressiveness will be | the. exhibition of | the Washington gravel used when lay- ing the corner stone of the church, and{other around the corner at 310 Tenth | which - is the same used. by George | ‘Washington: when laying the corner stone of the United, States Capitol. At | both morning and evening services sup- plications are to be made for the future welfare of the church. NEW U. S. FINANCE PLAN | IS APPROVED BY HOUSE Measure Permitting Short-Term Treasury Bills Awaits Action of Senate, | By the Associated Press. new Internal Revenue Building, now going up, and will probably be on the site of the- Archives Building. Another purchase consists 6f two lots | at 1002 Pennsylvania avenue and an. street, both purchased from Richard A. Ford, for the sum of $76,212. TWO DAMAGE SUITS FILED AGAINST SYLVIG Matthew Mendelsohn Brings Suit for Alleged Personal Injury and Damages to Car. Matthew Mendelsohn. 1311 Buchanan street. has filed separate suits for $10.- 241.30 each against Conrad G. Sylvig and his daughter, Margaret Sylvig Chastleton Apartments, for alleged per- reet, cars and busses, and to discour- | age business men from driving to work | of- minimizing traffic congestion. suggested that traffic lights be removed from streets having car lines. ! The speaker contended that traffic | lights not only slow up automobile and | street car and bus transportation but | also have the effect of diverting auto- | mobile traffic from natural arteries on | which lights have been installed to non-controlled streets. He urged also that. stop signs rather | than lights be employed on streets wherever possible; that the time for the | green signal traffic lights on streets in- | tersecting with heavily traveled thor- | Naomi Hollis the northeast corner of | oughfares be reduced to allow freer flow of traffic on thé main arteries, and also a speeding up -of the timing of ths lightson other congested. intersections. Harland Uphelds Lights. Turning off of the traffi¢ lights dur- ing non-rush hours also was suggested. William H. Harland, director of traffic, who was present, upheld the installation of traffic lights, pointing | to their efféct in protection of the pedestrian. He added, however, that he had in mind the speeding up of the }rhlme in’traffic signals. Theodore P. Noyes, vice chairman of the committee, presided in the absence of George W. Offutt. HOWSER COMPLAINS ABOUT STREET CARS Too Fast Over P Street Bridge, Assistant * Engineer Travel | in their private automobiles, as a mel}l;!} a chauffeur, 1 receiving disability e | June 8 Relief: was ‘arrested in the physician's office. Damron, who gave his v n_ as com= pensation from Government, he | said. havirg Been wounded in action. | He- had partstime empioyment in a to- | baceo shop near the Atlas Hotel. | CAPT. KOCH ORDERED ABOARD MARBLEHEAD Personnel Officer of Bureau of Nav: igation to Assame Com- mand at Sea. Capt. Ralph A. Koch has been di- rected in Navy Department orders to proceed to command the U. S. S. | Marhlehead, " heing relieved from his post of duty in the Bureau of Naviga- | tion,” where: e ‘has been in charge of the enlisted personnel division. Lieut. Howard C. Rule, jr., will be | detached from- Destroyer Squadron 14 of the Scouting Fleet about October 12 and come on duty at the Bureau of Engineering. _Lieut, -(Junior Grade) Herbert E. Berger is ordered detached from the U..S. S.. Milwaukee about August. 3 and will come on duty at the Office of Naval.Communications here. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Harry E. Rice, jr. will be detached from the Naval War College at Newport. R. 1. tomor- row and will come to the Washington Navy Yard for temporary duty. Lieut. Comdr. Rose T. McIntyre of the Medical, Corps is ordered detached from ‘the Naval Hospital here abont giwill proceed to the U. S. S. + T vas able | A new plan of Government financing. | sonm] injury and damage to an auto: mobile. J mctivities of the Commissioners next|to return to duty after receiving first == or of the mysterious primitive people, week will give the Citizens' Advisory Council. the Washington Chamber of | Commgree and the Board of Trade an opportunity to..submit their budget recommendations before the school es- timates are taken under consideration. These organizations have been loaned s complete, detailed copy of the ap- propriation requests of the departmen- | tal heads, and a committee of each is| studying the requests with a view to| recommending to the Commissioners | how much the 1931 budget should con- | tain as well as the tax rate that should | prevail in that year. With the exception of the advisory eouncil none of the organizations has indicated the budget limitation it will recommend. The council is said to be considering a budget totaling between $50,000,000 and $51,000.000. predicated on continuance of the existing tax levy of $1.70. The Commissioners have tentatively decided on a fotal budget of $48.000,000. | which Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, has advised them. can be supported by the existing tax rate and generous use of the surplus revenues to tye credit of fhe District | in the United States Treasury TWO BOYS, 1'2. ARRESTED IN POPPY MONEY THEFT Two 12-year-old Southeast Wash- ington boys are in custody at the Re- ceiving Home awaiting trial in Juvenile Court_because they are alleged to have robbed William Thomas, 9 years old, of 716 L street southeast, at Eighth and G streets southeast about 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon of $8.35. William had been selling “buddy” poppies during the day and was about ready to return home with his box of cash when two boys played bandit on him and took his money. He thought they were only fooling, he said. until they ecarried off his cash and disap- peared. Then he went home and told his mother, Mrs. Marie Thomas, of his ex- perience, and the latter reported the incident to the police. One of the two boys under arrest was found by Police- man J. S. Russell and held in custody, the mother of the other boy taking her son to the fifth precinct station. Accrding to the police, the boys un- der arrest admitred taking the money and spending 29 cents of it for sweets the police recovering $7.36. imont avenue. Seven-ye: colored. 38 I jurie determined. Elba Nelson, aid at Siblev Hospital t-old’ Lillan Washington, street, northeast. knocked down on the street near her ‘ome yesterday afternoon by the auto- mobile of August W. Abbott, 1708 Ver- She was treated at Freed- men's Hospital for possible internal in- . her condition being reported un- | tt was charged with | National Capital, Capt. reckless driving and released on bond. e Pl Garios Mastines Parkersburg, W. | Bound for New Orleans on First Leg of Tour Through South America. was After a fwo-day good will visit in the | de Pinillos of the Peruvian army and | | Indian tribes long before the discovery visting at 1601 R street. a southbound aufomobile at Sixteent and 1 streets early last evening that|this morning bound for New Orleans | struck Agnes Mawson, 23 vears old,|on the first leg of a trip which will | Chastleton Apartments. was driver of h She was treated at home for an injury to the back. REALTY PROBE FAVORED. | | Senate May Act on Modified Reso-| Jution Next Week. The Senate may give consideration next’ week to the modified resolution of the Senate District committee to au- thorize an_investigation of real estate and other financing activities in Wash- | ington, with & view to drafting new leg- islation on the subject. The resolution is now on the Senate calendar. having been reported favor- ably vesterday afternoon by Senator Deneen of Illinois. chairman of the | committee to audit and control the | contingent expenses. This committee | has to pass on the probable cost of all resolutions of inquiry. 1t is not likely that there will be an opportunity for the Senate to consider the resolution before Monday. | Licensed to Wed. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. May 29 (Special) . —Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: Francis George Augustine, 25, of Seat Pleasant, and Nellie Ritchie, 23, of Ritchie; George J. Leahy, 22, of Land- over. and Margaret M. Bean, 20, of ‘Washington: John Richard Lee Clem- ents, 22, of Edmonston, and Edith Louise McKeever, 18, of Washington; Arthur R. Ambrose, 32, of Dexter, Me, and Mary J. Doyle, 37. of Baltimore, Md.; James H. Boehman. 21, and Nellie E. Grieshaver. 18, both of Washington: | American capital cities. Harry L. Price, 21. Atlanta, Ga.. and Elizabeth C. Coburn. 21, of Hyatts! |and_Frank F. Sanfor Roch M. Y. and Mrs, M. H. Gorman, Springfield, Md. ». te 49 Lieut. Carlos Zegarra of the Peruvian | | navy. lett Bolling Fleld at 5:50 o'clock | | carry them to all Central and South The two fiyers, whose visit was made in an unofficial capacity, arrived at Bolling Field at 5 o'clock. They were accompanied by Alfredo Gonzalez- | Prada, first counselor of the Peruvian | embassy, and_his wife. Capt. de Pinillos carefully checked | over the green and orange Bellanca cabin plane before taking off into a early morning haze z The Peruvian aviators yesterday were | the guests of honor at a luncheon given | by the Peruvian Ambassador, Dr. Her- nan Velarde, in the Mayflower Hotel. | Others present. were the Minister. of | Costa Rica. Senor Don Manuel Castro i Quesada: the M:nister of Nicaragua. | Senor Dr. Don Juan B. Sacasa; As- | Jstant Secrelery of State Pranels| | White; the charge d'affaires of Honduras, Senor Prof. Carlos lzaguirre V.. the charge d'affaires of Guatemala, Senor Dr. Don Ramiro Fernandez; the charge d'affaires of Panama, Senor Don Juan | B. Chevalier; the charge d'affaires of | Ecuador, Senor Don Juan Barberis: the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, David S. Ingalls; Clarence M. Young, director of aeronautics of the | Department of Commerce: ‘Dana G. Munro, Miles Poindexter, Dr. Campos- Ortiz, first secrctary of the Mexican embassy; Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Capt. Frank B. Freyer, U. S. N.; Comdr. D. C. Wat- son, U. 8. N.; Maj. Howard C. David- son, U. S. A.: Maj. H. A. Dargue, U. 8. A.. Wade Ellis; Lieut. Alford J. Wil liams, U. S. N.; Lieut. L. M. Merrick, S. A Lieut.” William C. Tomlinson, U. 8. N.: P. E. D. Nagle, Harry Nor- ment. Louls Heath. Charles E. Harner, and the first counselor of the Peruvian embassy, Senor Alfredo Gonzalez-Prada. | | a pet goose, is used as a guard front of a Bloomsbury. England buteher shop. and she ejects hungry | cats by catching them by the tall, Dais and there may be more similar graves. If ‘three or four skulls should be found | with low-beetling supra-orbital bones half-way betwee those of man and the apes, all buried in a similar geological environment, it would be hard to ex- plain as a coincidence, Very little is known about the arch- eology of Texas, Dr. Hough said, al- though it must have been inhabited by of America. He brought back several well made flint instruments which he believes were used for scraping the hides of ‘buffalo to make clothing. The people who made these, probably a tribe of roving hunters, were quite dif- ferent from the alleged primitive hu- mans. Numerous letters are received the National Museum, Dr. Hough said, describing sensational discoveries which do not hold up under investi- gation. Often such reports are made by scientific men who have ventured outside their own specialties. Goes to Alaska. Meanwhile Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, who | after numerous investigations has be- come one of the foremost opponents of the theory that man may have existed an this continent before the coming of the Indians, has left Washington for Alaska, where he will explore the Yukon River banks this Summer for more evi- dence of man's migration from the Far North. Dr. Hrdlicka believes that the Yukon was the path followed by the original migrants . from _Kamchatka southward into the -heart -of North America. He will start at Dawson, the almost descrted capital of the Klondyke, and proceed in a chartered boat to various mision_ stations and Indian villages, where buried evidences of a prehistoric culture have been reported. He will investigate especially the famous paint- ed cities of the dead. Lacking instru- ments to dig graves in the frozen soil, the ancient people placed each body on the surface and built a wooden structure about it to protect it from the wild animals. Some of these still are standing. Fire Damages Vacant Dwelling. Fire caused $200 damage to a vacas ‘0-story dwelling at 5213 Canal road ariv today before firemen of No. ine Company and No. 5 T; 2nv brought it unde: corrol ar part of the house was eniciopes in flames when the apparatus Arrived, but the blaze was wn quelled. x| | permitting the issuance of short-term Treasury bills on a discount basis, was approved vesterday by the House in| passing the Hawley bill. The measure | now goes to the Senate. Under the legislation. as explained | earlier in the day to the ways and | means committee by Under Secretary | means of the Treasury, the bills would mature within 90 days and would be| sold under competitive bidding. In this way the interest rates would be adjusted by the market, he said, and would prob- ably be adjusted more closely to actual money conditions than it could be by the Treasury Department. ‘The new system, Mills said, would be put into effect gradually and if success- ful ultimately might permit the Secre- tary of the Treasury to abandon the present depository system. . He said the system had proved successful in Eng- land. MAN IS F Coroner Holds Death by Gas Was Suicide, Arthur A. Jones, colored, 40 years old, roomer at 2351 Champlain street, was found dead in a gas-filled room about # o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mem- bers of the Fire Department Rescue ber of the staff of Emergency Hospit: responded. . Dr. Gladding pronounced life extinct and referred the case to Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt. Examination of the room disclosed that Jones had left a nate telling of a love affair and of his' separation from his family. The coroner passed upon the death as a case of suicide. . JUDGE GRANTS ‘PADLOCK.’ U. 8. Attorney Alleges Prohibition Violations at 1742 L Street. Justice Jennings Bailey has granted a permanent “padlock” injunction against the first floor of 1742 L sfreet on the application of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt, who alleged frequent violations of _ the national prohibition act on the prem- fses, The injunction runs id.th Siecle, owner and Harry Hartman, Robert and Henry P. Johnson, tenants. Through Attorney Wilton Lambert, the plaintiff says Sylvig's daughter was operating the family au- tomobile when it. machipe at Seventeenth and P streets, May 17. and caused $241.30 damage to 'h]-‘ car -and $10,000 damages to him- self. Damages of $5,000 are asked in a suit filed by Maty E. Glascock, 1005 E street northeast, against the Charles' Schneider Baking Co. as the result of a traffic ac- cident February 27. Through Attorney Alfred D. Smith, the plaintiff says she | was crossing an’ alley on_ Linworth | place southwest between B and C | streets when a truck of the defendant | emerging from the alley struck and in- jured her. = e . ORDER VENDERS’ STAND ON | STREET MOVED District Commissioners Act After Claim That Pushcart Men Cause Congestion. | | The District Commissioners vesterday | ordered the venders' stand on the south side of T street between Seventh and Eighth streets moved to the east side of Eighth streets. The move was ordered on recom- | mendation of Assistant Supt. E. W. | Brown, in charge of the Traffic Bureau. The move was started by a letter o Brown from Dr. Homer J. Councillor of the Calvary Baptist Church, who said that the pushcart men in the street caused a great deal of congestion, par- ticularly since the.installation of traffic lights on Seventh and I streets. . | SEEKS $25,000 DAMAGES. | Ella Shuttleworth Claims Injuries Sustaived on Faulty Staircase. Ella Shuttleworth, 2109 F street. has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to, recover $25.000 damages from Harry lw:rdmln and. ‘Thomas P. Bones for alleged personal injuries. She says she was a tenant of an apartment house at 1117 Vermont avenue December 17, ilast, when, .by reason of alleged de- | fective treads on the staircase, she fell istained serious injury. She is Attorney = Godfrey L. collided with his | treet between H and I| | Tells Commissioners. Complaint. against speeding of Wash- ington Railway & Electric cars over the P Street Bridge was made in a report..to the District Commissioners yesterday by H. R. Howser, assistant engineer of bridges. Mr. Howser safd that the. conditions were such that “it would be criminal to permit them to continue.” | to the Public Utilities Commission for action. 1 The speed allowed-on' the bridge: is 12 miles per hour. Mr. Howser said the speéd the cars usually traveled was | 20 to 30 miles per hour.. Should one | leave the rail the woodwork _of . the | bridge would be unable to hold the’car | back, sccording to the report. i Mr. Howser said that the company | had been appealed to to hold down | the speed of the cars. and that strice orders had been issued to the motormen on the subject, but the orders had not been obeyed. i | | | (COOPER DEPLORES D. C.'S | LACK OF BALLOT POWER| Former Y. M. C. A. Seerctary Tells Lions Capital Residents Are Class- ed With “Minors and Idiots.” Telling of the great prosperity- of the Nation and particularly that_prosperity and spirit of democracy in the District of Columbia, William Knowles Cooper, former general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, speaking at 2 luncheon meeting yesterday of dele- gates from the six Lions Clubs of the ‘Twenty-second District of Lions Inter- national, ‘paused for a moment to de- plore the lack of the vote in the Na- tional Capital. e “We poor people, who are catalogued now with minors and idiots, can't vote,” Mr. Cooper declared. ‘The luncheon, held in the Hotel May- flower, was & part of the convention program of the Lions Clubs of thé Twenty-second District, Lions Interna- tional. A The convention wax orought to & close with a banquet at_the Mayflower i last night. with Ben A: Ruffin of Rich mond, Va. president of Lions Inter national, as the. speaker. He told of the general growth and progress of Lions Clubs. r | { | i |AWARD FOR SEAMANSHIP TO MIDSHIPMAN WALES Student at Naval Academy “tq Receive Dress Sword, D. A. R. Gift. Midshipman George Herrick Wales of 3609 Norton place has been nominated | as best in seamanship and will receive the dress sword which is an annual gift | of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution to the midshipman in the grad= uating class at the Naval Academy who receives this rating. Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, president gen= eral of the D. A. R., received word to- day-from Rear Admiral S. S. Robinson, commandant. of the academy, that Mid- shipman Wales had received the nomi- nation. Mrs. Hobart, accompanied by about 40 State regents who will be in Washing- ton attending a board meeting, will go ta Annapolis June 5 to attend the presentation ceremonies, when Mrs. Ho- bart, in the name of the D. A. R., will present the sword to Mr. Wales, CONSENTS TO DECREE. for $3,530 Awarded Washington Gallery. Charles Dick of Akron, Ohio. former United States Senator, yesterday con- sented to a final decree granted by Justice Peyton Gordon in Equity Divi- sion 2 awarding a judgment of $3,530 against him in favor of Helen B. Preese, trading as the Washington Gallery, who said she held his notes. The decree was entered in a suit by the plaintiff, who informed the court that Dick has deposited with her four cases containing _glassware, china, bronzes and bric-a-brac as security for the notes, now overdue. Through At- torney .Wharton E. Lester the plaintiff asked that she be aythorized to sell the goods and to credit” the amount ok- tained. on the notes. . Dick said he had no objection to the goods being sold. = i { | Washington { The report was turned over | Judgment TInability to secure men to work is threatening the sugar output of Nica- raugua. ‘