Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 17

he Foening Star. - PAGE 17 ‘STREET CONTRACTS WILL BE AWARDED WITHIN NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE POTONAC DRAGEED | N EFFORT 10 FND. AR CRASH VICTIN DRAGGING WRECKED PLANE FROM THE POTOMAC PROBE INSPECTION PHASE OF BULDING | INSPECTOR S OFICE | 1 | | | { i Investigation Revealed in Ef- ficiency Bureau’s Report on District Zoning. STUDY ALSO INCLUDES ELEVATOR INSPECTORS Administrative Heads Declare Pre- liminary Report Facts Are Correct. The Inspection Bureau of the build- ing inspector's office of the District is | now undergoing a thorough investiga- tion by the United States Bureau of | Efficiency. it was revealed today after | the bureau's original report on the | building inspector’s office came to light in the District Building, seven months | after its submission to the Commis- | sioners | The original report. which charged | Iax administration of the zoning regu- lations, incomplete records containing insufcient information and lack of | definite policy as to the interpretation | of various ambiguous regulations, it was | learned at the efficlency bureau, was | designed as a_preliminary resume of general conditions found by the bu- reau’s investigators. Study Nears Completion. | The study of the Inspection Bureau ! has been under way for some time, ac- cording to Thomas Murphy. assistant chief of the bureau, and is understood o be nearing completion, although no indication was given as to when a re- i port or. the results would be written and forwarded to the Commissioners. In fact, Murphy said, the investigation | of this particular division of the build- ( ing inspector's department was started previous to the filing of the preliminary report with the Commissioners, but the investigators assigned to this work have ot been at it continuously. Conditions found during the general investigation on which the preliminary report was based, it was intimated, led to the study of the inspection service. This, it was said. will cover the activi- ties of the building inspectors as well as the elevator inspectors, who also come under the supervision of the build- ing inspector. The building inspector’s office is one of the last to be gone through by the efficiency experts, and the bureau will virtually wind up its many months of inquiry into the metheds of the munici- | pal government departments and the ef- ficiency of their personnel. Nearly every department of the District government | has been ‘studied by the bureau attaches | in the last two years, some of them only superficially, héwever. The bureau also | made comprehensive studies of the tran- sit merger agreement which expired June 1 and the important subject of | fiscal relations between the Federal and District governments. Ladue Issues Statement. Engineer Commissioner William . B. | Ladue, as chairman of the Zoning Com- mission, today issued the following state- ment, in reference to changes made by the Bureau of Efficiency in the report which was revealed yesterday: “It is desired to correct certain in- ferences which might be drawn from recent headlines and descriptive matter in the Washington press charging lax- ity or maladministration of the zoning 1aws on the part of the Zoning Commis- sion_of the District of Columbia. “The articles were based upon a re- port_received the Commissioners on November 1, 1928, from the Bureau of Efficiency treating of the procedure in regard to the issuance of occupancy permits by the office of the inspector RECORD DISPLAY IN'PEONY EXHIBIT Two Societies Join in Flower Show at Willard Hotel. strange jungle fragrance of exotic or chids, long tables laden with enormous peony blossoms of the rarer varieties and a record display of iris, water lilies, roses and old-fashioned perennials, the joint annual exhibition of the American Horticultural Society and the American Peony Society opened at 2 p.m. today in the Willard ballroom. Flower lovers were in attendance from all parts of the country, particu- larly peony breeders and fanciers. Ap- proximately 300 out-of-town members of the society are in Washington. Peonies occupied the center of the stage, with the judges seeking among the new varieties one worthy of the $1,000 award for a new yellow peony and for the best single bloom, to be awarded the sllve” medal. { Washington gardens are well repre sented in all the exhibits. Dr. Earle B. | White of Kensington, Md., chairman of | the local committee on peony exhibits, had hundreds of blossoms entered. +Stored for Several Weeks. Most of the peonies have been in| cold storage for several wecks. The committee had some anxious moments last night when the blooms were taken from the packing cases, looking as if they had been dead for days, and placed in water. ~ Florists customarily store some of the better known commercial varieties in this way, but the ability of the new and unfamiliar varieties to revive was a matter of conjecture. The result was almost miraculous as the withered leaves became green and fresh and the blackened buds opened into magnificent white, pink and scar- let. blossoms. ‘The same effect was obtained with ihe roses, although these had been stared for' much shorter periods. Prof. David Lumsden, chairman of the spe- cial exhibits committee, has succeeded in bringing here the most sensational of the newly imported varieties. Overflows Baliroom. of buildings, and drawing the con- clusion that the administration of the | during the morning the show overflowed | zoning regulations has been and still As the flowers continued to pour in Helene Kearney (left) and Melba Vierdag photographed with prise peonies at the opening of the Horticulture Society exhibit at the Willard Hotel. | With the atmosphere pervaded by the PETTION CHANGE N PARKING RULE | Business Leaders Want Right for Angular Stops on Thirteenth Street. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the | ‘iMmh-ms and Manufacturers’ Associa- | tion, with Ross Andrews, president of the Thirteenth Street Business Men's Association, and Walter Brownley, carry- ing a petition signed by more than 100 prominent business men, were in con- ference with Representative Gibson of Vermont today in behalf of restoration of angle parking on Thirteenth street. They impressed upon Mr. Gibson that the business men along Thirteenth street had paid 40 per cent of.the cost of widening the street for the specific pur- pose of developing automobile parking in that area for the promotion of busi- ness, and that promptly after the street was widened angle parking was pro- hibited. The result, they said, is that business has suffered seriously. ‘These business leaders told Mr. Gib- son that their petition, signed by all of the leading business men in that section of the city, was being ignored by the District Commissioners, and that while | they are prohibited from a parking space | for their customers, 200 feet in & block is given over to the bus company for taking on and discharging passengers. Mr. Andrews and Gen. Stephan re- | newed a proposal made to the District Commissioners that all parking be pro- hibited on Thirteenth street south of New York avenue until 9:15 am., so as to give greater use of street space during the morning rush to employ- ment. Mr. Gibson, who has made a careful study of traffic conditions, told these business leaders that he was entirely in sympathy with them and would co- operate in any way he could to get angle parking restored. TRAFFIC OFFICER GIVES TICKETS TO 22 DRIVERS | Sinclair Charges 17 With Speeding and Others With Light Violations. i the ballroom into two adjacent rooms. | is somewhat lax: that the records on| Two exhibits of orchids were accorded | Motor Cycle Policeman Raymond V. file are incomplete, and that no definite ' a prominent position, due both to their | Sinclair of the Trafic Bureau, enemy policy as to the interpretation of vari- | value and to the fact that they are the |of traffic regulation violators, continued ous ambiguous provisions of the regu- | loveliest and most delicate flowers in | his activities last night in a large meas- lations has been adopted, i the show, with the butterfly-wing |ure, to the despair of 22 motorists. Of “With respect to these statements | texture of the blossoms, which seem to | these, 17 were allegedly violating the the following remarks are made: float on air. Some individual plants |speed laws and five were disobeving “First—The 7oning commission of the | in this collection are valued at above fhic lights. i Anacostia Mechanic Drown- | ed, 6 Others Escape. When Plane Plunges Into River. PILOT MISJUDGES HEIGHT. WHEELS STRIKING WATER Flight Was Last of Speed Tests Which Had Been in Progress Three Weeks. Harbor police today are dragging the Potomac River channel just below Alexandria in an effort to recover the body of Ernest George Joseph Biron, aviation machinists mate at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, Kkilled late yesterday in the crash of an all- metal cabin monoplane, in which six other persons were injured. The crash occurred when the pilot, Warren Vine, 23 years old of Cincin- nati, misjudged his height above the glassy surface of the river during the last half of the last lap of the conclud- ing Tun of a series of speed tests to which the plane was being put. The wheels dipped into the water and the plane nosed over, plunging to the bot- fom in a few seconds. Thrown Against Board. Biron was thrown against the strument board and stunned, going down with the wreckage. The others escaped through gaping holes in the | broken fuselage. They were, in addition to Pilot Vine: C. Gilbert Peterson, director of sales for the Metal Aircraft Corporation of Cincinnati, builders of the plane, which was known as the Flamingo. Norman Emerson Roberts, machinist’s mater. third class. Joseph Charles Onka, aviation machinist’s mate, second class. Jay Hamilton Whoolery, aviation machinist's mate. second class. Alvin R. Bugbee, gunnery sergeant, United State Marine Corps. { ‘Whoolery and Onka are under treat- ment at- the Naval Hospital today for cuts, bruises. minor injures and shock. Their condition is not regarded as seri- ous. The others were given emergency treatment at the Anacostia Naval Air Station last night, after which Vine and | Peterson returned to the Mayflower | Hotel, where they were staying during the period of test flights. | Naval officers who participated in the raising of the wrecked plane from the river bottom last night were amazed | that six of the seven occupants of the | plane escaped. The plane was reduced to a mass of torn. twisted metal. Noth- | in- aviation | ing but the motor can be salvaged, pre- | ! liminary examination revealed. Fuselage Broken Open. ; When the landing gear and left wing | smashed into the water the fusclage was broken open and five of the sur- vivors escaped through the hole as the plane was sinking. Vine was thrown | through the celluloid windshield in | front of the pilot's seat. 1 The four enlisted men clung to one of the wheels, which was ripped off and | floated to the surface, and to kapok life cushions. Vine. who could not | swim., was kept afloat by Peterson. | They were picked up a few minutes| after the crash by members of the crew of a tugboat of the Smoot Sand & | Gravel Co. of Georgetown, commanded | by Capt. W. C. Slye. The tug was tow- | ing two heavily loaded barges when the | plane struck the water a few hundred yards away. Capt. Slye immediately | cast off the tow line and steamed to | the rescue. But for the prompt arrival of the tug it is likely that the loss of life would | have been greater. Weakened by their | injuries and the shock, all of the sur- vivors, heavily clothed, had great dif- | ficulty keeping afloat. | Last of Speed Trials. The crash occurred soon after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon during the | concluding flight of a long series of tests which have been in progress dur- ing_the past three days. “We were running off the last of a | series of speed trials,” it was explained | at the Prince Georges Inn. Above: Navy tug crew lifting metal monoplane from the Potomac near Alexandria last night. and six others injured when the machine crashed late yesterday. Lower left: Another view of the wreckage as it was being lifted to the tu; who descended to fasten cables to the plane. Station, who lost his life. FORMER JOCKEY | HELD IN SHOOTING M. W. Henry, Arrested Near Marlboro, Charged With Assault on Dietz. Signal Tamperers, Who Switch Lights, Sought by Police Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent of police, has issued a general order for policemen to be on the lookout for persons tam- pering with street signal lights, as a result of two recent cases of practical jokers altering the tim- ing of the traffic controls. The first instance occurred at Ninth and E streets. Some one forced open the box containing the control switch and reversed the red and green lights. A few deys later there was a similar happening at Dupont Circle, and. for a time, pedestrians found themselves with twice the time to cross the street that was allotted to automobiles. FOURD. G. ENSIGNS | Milton W. Henry, 35, a former jockey, of Baltimore, for whom Washington, Baltimore and Prince Georges County police have been searching nearly two | weeks, was arrested near Marlboro yes- | terday afternoon and formally charged with assault with intent to kill Wil- liam Dietz, 35, who was shot three times . formerly the am’s Horn Inn, on May 27. The man was taken into custody while One man was killed z. Right inset: One of the Navy divers —Star Staff Photos PENNY SLOT SCALE REGULATION URGED Roberts Speaks to Weight and Measure Officials at Convention. Standard specifications for the penny-in-the-slot ~ weighing = machine were urged on the National Association of Weights and Measures officials to- day by George M. Roberts, superintend- ent of weights, measures and markets of_the District. There are now approximately 65,000 of thése machines in the United States, varying widely in their reliability, Mr. Roberts said. A Government official here in Wash- | ington,” Mr. Roberts said, “was told oy his physician to weigh himeelf at ‘re- quent intervals. One night he weighed himself on two scales in front of the same store. One showed that he had lost a- pound since the day before and the other that he’ had gained a pound. The manager of that store heard from ihe weights and measures department. returning from a fishing trip by county police, who received a “tip” on his whereabouts a short time before the arrest. Released on $5,000 Bond. Henry waived preliminary hearing be- 0 GET SEA DUTY Fifth From Here to Graduate | Women Are Great Users. |45 to Be Resurfaced, 24 to | Be Concreted and 37 Center Ways to Be Paved. iCOMPLEflON OFiTASK BY WINTER IS PLANNED Bids for All Projects Have Been Opened—Heater Method to Be Used on 32. The final contracts for street im- | provements slated for completion before | Winter will be awarded by the Commis- | sloners within the next week, it was an- { nounced today at the District Building. The program provides for the resur- | facing of 45 streets, concreting of 24 others and paving of the center road- ways of 37 streets on which side strips | previously have been paved with con- i crete. On 32 of the streets to be resurfaced the so-called heater method will be | used, while the others will be given a i new asphaltic surface. Bids for all of ‘Hhr projects already have been opened. | Resurfacing Starts July 1. [ The resurfacing by the heater method | is scheduled to start July 1. The streets | to be improved under this schedule fol- How: Northwest—Twelfth street, Massa- chusetts avenue to N street; Penn: vania avenue, Jackson place to Seven- | teenth street; the south side of Penn- | sylvania avenue, Seventeenth to Eight- | eenth streets; the west side of Truxton | Circle; Morgan street, Kirby street to ! New Jersey avenue; the north side of | New York avenue, from Ninth to Tenth i streets; Harvard street, Thirfeenth to | Fourteenth streets; Kenyon street, Thir- | teenth to Fourteenth streets: Wyoming avenue, 250 feet east of Connecticut avenue to 150 feet west of Connecticut avenue; Connecticut Avenue Bridge and ap) . @ Street Bridge and ap- i proaches; Twentieth street, I street to 150 feet north; L street, Twenty-fourth street to Pennsylvania avenue; the | south side of New York avenue. Ninth to Eleventh streets; K street. Ninth to Tenth streets, and K street, Seventh to | Ninth streets. | Northeast—Quincy street, North Cap- | itol street to Lineoln road; Lincoln ! road, Truxton Circle to R street: Trux- Lower left inset: Joseph Biron, aviation machinist's mate at the Naval|ton Circle, east side; Fourth street, L {to M streets: Sixth street, Maryland | avenue to F street. and Fourth street. | East Capitol street to Maryland avenue. | Southeast—Second street. D to E | streets; C street, Third to Fourth | streets; Seventh street, D to G street: | D street, Seventh to Ninth streets: South Carolina avenue. Sikth to Seventh | streets; Seventh street, I street to Vir- |ginia avenue: Fifth street, Seward | Square to E street. Southwest—D_street, and-a-Half street. Streeis to Be Repaved. treets to be repaved with asphalt third to Four- | The sf Tow: ollow : Narthwest—Twenty-ninth street, M to N streets; Potomac avenue, M street to Thirty-first street, M ; Thirty-first street, P to R streets; Twenty-sixth street, K street to vi avenue; Thirtieth street, M to N streets; Nineteenth street. K to N streets; O street, Seventh to Eighth streets, and Louisiana avenue, Sixth to Seventh streets. Southwest— Virginia _avenue, Ninth to Twelith streets; B street, First street to Mary- land avenue, and C_street, Sixth to Seventh streets. Sq ast—New Jer- sey avenue, C to E stitetg All of these streets are now paved * old_granite blocks, and the new asph: surface will be laid on them. All of the new concrete roadways are to be laid in the northwest sec- tion,as follows: Spring road. Rock Creck Church ‘road to Thirteenth street: Al- lison street, Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets: Third street, Rock Creek Church Toad to Taylor street: Eighteenth street, Allison to Webster streets: Thirteenth street, Longfellow to Madison streets; Quackenbos street, North Dakota ave- nue to Fourth street: Roxboro place, at Annapolis Will Join District of Columbia has no responsi- | $10,000. They are from the green- | According to Sinclair, a wave of .ill fore Justice of Peace H. W. Gore, and | bility for the administration by the city | houses nf Mrs | | today by Mr. Peterson. “We had con- | Fifth to Eighth streets; Somerset place. of the regulations governing nccupancy permits. This matter is placed by law under the District Commisioners. The zoning commission is concerned only in making the regulations and not in the enforcement of them. Some Errors Likely. “Second—During the past eight years | since the occupancy permits have been Wilmington, Del., and of Thomas Young of Bound Brook, N. J, America’s premier orchid fanciers Special interest was being shown in the exhibits of local garden clubs in competition for the trophy offered by The Evening Star. Ten groups of Washington and the suburbs are com- peting for this cup. The problem set to be werked out by the exhibitors was William K. du Pont of 4 health is sweeping the city. at - |ous officer they were hurrying to hos- required under the zoning regulations | for a planting around a bird bath. The the office of the inspector of buildings | best exhibit in this class will receive 75 has issued approximately 75000 such | points toward this grand prize. In ad- permits. It is not unreasonable to sup- | dition, exhibits in any of the other pose that in handling such a large num- | classes by garden club members will ber of cases, some errors would be made. | count toward the trophy. The office of the inspector of buildings | Japanese iris are being shown for the | is not only aware of the mistakes made | first time in an Ameriman Horticultural in the cases cited by the report of the | Society show. Bureau of Efficiency, but was instrumen- | The show will remain open from 2 to tal in calling these examples to the at- | 10 p.m.' today and all day tomorrow. tention of the Bureau of Efficiency.|The annual banquet of the American st in | the families of motorists. The mafority | | of persons arrested informed the zeal- 1 | pitals or to their homes, where a sick | | wife or member of their family demand- | ed attention. Their worries caused them | to forget regulations concerning traffic, | they said, but their memories were somewhat Testored when they appeared in Traffic Court today and were assess- ed fines ranging from $5 to $15 by Judge Ralph Given. NEW ACCOUNTING SYSTEM IS ADVISED IN REPORT Recommended by Efficiency Bu- reau® for District Workhouse cluded the high-speed and medium- | speed flights over the measured Navy | speed course from the Naval Air Sta- | tion to the Jones Point light, just below | Alexandria. We were engaged 'in the | cruising speed test. with the Wasp motor running at 1,650 revolutions per | minute. | ““The first 1ap and half of the last lap | had beencompleted and we had_just | made the final turn off Jones Point and_were smsfrmenxng out, to return | to the Naval Alr Station, which would | have completed the tests. | “Vine was flying low as an aid to! knmng the plane in a level course | dur} As we turned we we flying into the sun, which was very low. | The water was glassy smooth and the | combination of the glare and smooth water deceived Vine. The wheels | struck the water and the plane went | over with a terrific crash. It was all was releaged on $5.000 bond. Accord- ing to police, he admitted being present | at the inn when the shooting occurred, | but, like all others examined in the case, denied he was in the room at the have just graduated from the Naval time. Academy at Ananpolis are going on duty The evidence upon which the charge ' afloat. reporting to their ships July 13. against him is based was not disclosec | While one has been selected to shape his Marine Corps. Four of the five Washingtonians who by police, who merely said it was the career in the Marine Corps. The Navy “Women probably mors than men sing | trying to reduce. me In much distress because the scale ! indicated she had gained in weight from 97 to 98 pounds. A prominent lawyer in this city wrote me ‘that he had weighed himself on two scales which showed a variation of about five pounds. He felt sure both of them could not be correct. showed both use penny scales most. of them are One lady spoke to| result of ‘“certain information” they Department today made public the Investigation possessed. Dietz has refused to make » | lengthy list of assignments for the new- statement. ly commissioned cnsigns and second | lieutenants, representing a wide variety Is Second Man Held. ! of vessels that will take them on duty to Henry is the second man taken into various parts of the world custody as a result of the shooting, al. | . George Herrick Wales, elder son of though several others have been ques. .scales nad been correct at the time of except its ability to accumulate pennies. “It is mot unreasonable to require manufacturers and owners of these scales to render the public a_truthful tioned. Sol ‘Munif sioner and prominent in' District 8f- | ot cuperopay, 5cales should be under . olomon b - o raf Four-and-nmait strset soutpuerse,of | fates will So'on duty aboard the U. 5. 5. | insecurate anes. shoulh be. punaBeDIC. brought Dietz to Sibley Hospital, where Mississippi | Those scales which combine weighing he is still under treatment for the bul. . Edward C. Stephan is ordered to the jand fortune telling, Mr. Roberts said, George R. Wales, Civil Service Commis. the Tast test, but the owner of one had | paid no attention to anything about it | Fifth to Eighth streets: Seventh street. | Rittenhouse to Tuckerman streets: | Tuckerman street. Seventh to Eighth | streets; Eighth streef, Tuckerman to | Underwood streets: Tewkesberry place, | Seventh to Eighth streets; Whittier | street, Second to Harlan streets: Hem- {lock Sstreet, Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets: Sixteenth street, Kalmia road to the District line; Nevada avenue. Liv- ingston to Rittenhouse streets; Patter- son street, Chevy Chase Parkwav to Nevada avenue; Windom place, Thirty= | elghth street to Wisconsin = avenue Veazey street, Thirty-eighth to Thirty ninth streets: Upton street, field street, Bellevue Terrace to Thir ninth street; Sheridan street, Fifth to Ninth streets: Eighth streef, Ritten- house to Sheridan' streets; Ninth street, Sheridan to Tuckerman streets. i D Street to Get Concrete. s, but there has | Peony Society wi id tonight at . : r There have been mistakes, but there has | Peony Society will be held tonight af over in'an instent; |let wounds, was charged with being an U S: S. Arkansas. With him on this | give their patrons good measures in been no maladministration of the reg lations referred to. Nor is nfaladminis- | tration charged against the District in the report of the Bureau of Efficiency. ““Third, various steps have from time | to time been taken. including prose- cution in the courts, looking to the! correction as rapidly as possible, of | the system of issuing occupancy per- mits and checking up of their legal| use, policies in the office of the inspector of buildings and a proposed reorgani-| W.S. Johnson, at Carbondale. Pa.. after | probably would not be recommended by | zation of that office to better handle this and other building matters has been proposed to the Commissioners and is being considered in connection | Gibbs and a nephew. Charles E. Kinney, | duction of $13,000 in the estimates of with the 1931 estimates. Remedial Steps Taken. “Fourth. Upon its receipt the re- port of the Bureau of Efficiency was referred to the inspector of buildings. who made a Teport thereon. The report of the Bureau of Efficiency and the re- port of the inspector of buildings have been under careful consideration and study of the building department and the Engineer Commissioner and are still under consideration. Certain reme- dial measures have already been taken and such further action as is necessary and proper will be taken at an early American Dies Aboard Ship. CHERBOURG, Prance, June 7 (#) — John Chehardy, a passenger on the liner Majestic, and whose home was understood to be in the town of Inde- pendence, La. died suddenly aboard the vessel yesterday. The body will be shipped back to the United States on the steamer Aquilania, which is due to sail tomorrow evening. Recent regons in Germany show that there are at least five times as many cases of iliness among employed women these not employed. the Willard. MRS. SARAH DAKIN DEAD. Mother of Washington Woman Ex- pires in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sarah E. Dakin, mother of Mrs. Changes have been made in the| Warner A. Gibbs of 1759 P street, died |looked upon favorably by the officials | at the home of another daughter, Mrs. |a long illness, last Sunday. She was 76_years old. Surviving her are Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. of this city. Interment was at Sher- | burne, N."v. and Reformatory. Recommendation for inclusion of an |item in the 1931 estimates for installa- tion of a new accounting system at the | District Workhouse and Reformatory was made in a report by the Bureau of Efficiency to the District Commissioners vesterday. |" The report said that the plan was |in charge of the institutions naméd, but | them for fear it would fail to be ap. | proved by the Budget Bureau. The new | system, however, would cause a net re- the institutions named, the bureau esti- | mated. {Policeman Declines The unusual situation of a man ask- ing to be arrested and the officer re- fusing his request was presented this morning in the office of Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman, commander of the police vice squad, where Palmer Sowers of the 1600 block U street came with his attorney, John H. Burnett, to offer to | give himself up on a warrant charging gaming which Letterman is supposed o have in his possession. “Here he is. Are you going to ar- rest him or aren't you?” Burnett de- manded of the officer, when he took Sowers into Letterman’s office on the second floor of the District Building. Letterman was talking to another man at the time. “Please don't interrupt me; can’t you see I'm having a conference,” Letter- man replied. i Who Offers to Surrender at Office to Arrest Man Letterman would neither speak to him nor look at him, he left, saying he in- tended to go to Police Court and at- tempt to have Letterman held in con- tempt of court for failure to serve a warrant. The affair started Wednesday of last week. Letterman is said to have en- tered a house in the 1600 block of U street and to have found Sowers there, but failed to make an arrest. Three days ago Sowers confronted Letterman in Police Court and requested him to serve the warran on which he had entered the U street address. Lefter- man declined to do so. Burnett then nt before Judge John P, McMahon d attempted to geti a warrant charg- ing Letterman with lllegal entry. | | “The accident was due entirely to the | boat, from the Navy Yard, with a diving magistrate refused his request. This mq Letterman said the warrant “would ‘be served, but at the 3 Plagey Burnett started to protest, but when | proper time and So great was the force of the impact | that the- blades of the steel propelier curled up like tin, it was revealed when the plane was raised. Distressed Over Death. “Vine and I are greatly distressed over Biron's death,” Peterson said. unnatural test conditions. Such an ac- cident would not have occurred in commercial: flying. as no commercial | flights are made at such low altitudes. Speed trials of this character are made only once or twice during the life of an entire series of commercial plane: i After picking up the survivors, Capt. | 8Slye headed for the Naval Air Station. | A salvage crew aboard the United Staces | Ni .E. 28 was sent out immedi- | ately from the Washington Navy Yard | to raise_the plane. Iu was foined by | the U. S. S. Quilly, diving instruction | crew aboard. The salvage work was | under direetion of Lieut. Comdr. W. Clark. The plane was easily locaied by the | oil and gasoline “slick” on the surface of the water. Diving operations were begun at 5:45, when the Quilly arrived on the scene. Diver Charles Murphy went down and located the plane on a hard bottom in about 16 feet of water on the edge of the steamboat _channel, He was unable to find Biron’s body and attached a marking buoy. A cable was sent down and he made it fast o the base of the main left wing spar. When the hoisting began, however, the spar tore away and came up with'a single rib and small piece of the wing surface attached. Murphy wenc down again at 6:55 o'clock and reported by telephone that he was unable, because of the muddy condition of the water and the gather- ing darkness, to see anything. He said he was hunting for the body again. “Can you open one of the cabin doors?” he was asked. | Mwnpby was forged to sbandon this | —_— sessory to the assault with intent to | Uattleship will be serving another new- kill, and was also s : Iy appointed ensign from Washington, $5.000. released on*bond of | X1t "Bk, John V. MeAlpin, Jr. is ordered to the U. S. S. Concord. Raymond F. Crist. jr. has been ap- pointed a second lietitenant in the Ma- rine Corps and assigned to duty at the Marine Barracks, Navy Yard Phila- Diver Makes Cable Fast. delphia. Assignments of the new en- Murphy then reported that he was | LEIS, {rom the States near Washington standing beside the engin, e plane " 5 and“ackedthat anotner eabie he semt vo i erimiy 2 e . 5 BT RE: down. This was done and Murphy made | yansas. Hie clasermate. fom. the. o it fast around the motor, returning to Dostaion blste Wilia Loverons Iapoaurface at 7:18 o'clock, after being Kabler of Bristol, will g0 to the U. §. S. While nearly S0 amall boats of anr|MAIVINd o U ett. Bal kinds formed a circle around the sal- ~ount\® M. Bias beea acciened T one vage boats in.the thickening dusk the orars ‘duty’ with (he aavel dific temm plane was hoisted, the twisted propelle: ¢ wikgne’ld Ma: (‘ha?m Ri de!“ mh and motor breaking water at 7:30. Th - S HABGTI1s. ot strain on the derrick boom, howevei Tl ADnapolis. i assigned to the i o : e a. Edwi onston st L e bl g B o er of Ruxton, Baltimore County, Md., . "h e e cable was slackenc to be with the Marine Corps and has - the plane disappearing again bc .cn appointed a second lieutenant to low the surface until new tackle coulc n on duty at the Marine Barracks at be_brought from the navy yard. (e Navy ‘Yard at Philadelphia When the plane finally” was raised | g clear of the surface, at about 11 o'clock | last night, it was found that Biron's body had been washed out of the | wreckage and police boats began drag- | ging the channel for a short time after midnight, resuming their operations | “shirt off his back.” early this morning. | man returned a glass of whisky for it, The wreckage of the plane was taken | according to testimony in Police Court to the naval air station and dumped on | today. the concrete beach beside the wreckage | Policeman J. R. Leach of the sixth of a big Navy Sikorsky twin-motored | precinct testified that yesterday when plane which sank off the naval air |patrolling his beat on Washington street station Wednesday afternoon. he overheard an argument in an es- Although the Flamingo was a com- | tablishment in the 400 block. One man mercial plane and was operated by awished to “hock” his shirt for a glass commercial pilot, it is probable that a |>f whisky: the other thought the whisky Navy board of inquiry will be convened | more valuable. today as a result of the death of Biron. | Both were arrested and charged with The five enlisted men were making the | disorderly conduct. Gleason and his flight on their own initiative, as guests | friend, Jack Brennan, were fined $10 of the commercial opergtors, it was |today by Judai Gus A. Schuldt, who de- attempt after cutting his Jjagged metal. . hand on _— Steve Gleason would give a man the OFFERS SHIRT FOR DRINK. Especially if the | the latter respect. “But,” he said, “I do not know that these fortunes are always true. Most of them are compli- mentary. A few nights ago I patron- ized a ficket scale. The weignt indicated was about correct.” Fine air bubbles in gasoline may in- crease the volume greatly. Bridgeman of the Bureau told the convention. This must be guarded against, he pointed out. in pre- cision measurements of gasoline. The annual weights and m convention came to a close today. COLORED MAN ACCUSED OF MURDEROUS ASSAULT ‘Wilbur Giles. colored. 21 years old, wanted at Rustburg, Va. to ‘answer a charge of having shot a colored girl at 1 picnic near there last Saturday night, was arrested this morning at 1415 Seventeenth street by Detectives James Springmann and M. J. Dowd and two third precinct policemen. Rustburg authorities located the al- leged fugitive at the Seventeenth street house, and when the detectives made |certain he was there they visited the house. The two policemen were “plant- ed” in rear of the house, and they | halted the partly clad fugitive in a nar- | row alley as he was making his way to | freedom. | The prisoner admitted having partici- pated in a row and said he shot a col- ored girl five times. Dawes Forsakes Pipe for Cigar. NEW YORK, June 7 (A.—What ho! | Could it be that the defeat of the pipe- smoking on the way to be bassador caused it? Mr. Dawes ‘arrived here | smoking o nthe way to be Ambassador the Court of St. James. But it was & pipes I Was- ) WG Rlak Saad ures All of the concrete center strips, ex- cept one, are to be laid in the north- west section. The exception is D street | northeast. Fifteenth to Sixteenth streets | The northwest streets to be paved with | the center strips follow: Van Ness street, Thirty-eighth street to Wisconsin avenue: Van Ness street, Reno road to Thirty-eighth street: Veazey street, Reno road to Thirty- cighth strect: Veazey street, Thirty- eighth street west to an alley: Warren street, Thirt ighth to Thirty-ninth streets: Warren street. Thirty-seventh to Thirty-eighth streets; Windom street, Thirty-eighth to Thirty-ninth streets; Windom street, Reno road to | Thirty-eighth street: ~Thirty-seventh street, Van Ness to Veazey streets: | Thirty-seventh street, Van Ness street | to south .alley: Thirty-seventh street, Warren to Windom streets: Thirt, eighth street, Upton to Windom streets Reno road, Windom to Yuma streets ( Fifth street, Concord to Longfellow streets; Fifth street, Concord to Madi- son streets; Fifth street, Nicholson to &glelhorpe streets; Fifth street, Ogle- 0 Nicholson street, Fifth to Sixth streets: Nicholson street, Fifth street to alley east of Fifth street; Oglethorpe street, Fourth to Fifth streets; Peabody street, Fourth street to alley east; Belmont road, Tracy place to 670 feet toward Twenty-fourth street; Kalorama road, Wyoming avenue to 390 feet toward Twenty-fourth street: Rowland place east of Reno road; Thirty-third place south of Rowland place; Glover drive, Garfield to Hawthorne streets; Chesa- peake street, Connecticut avenue to alley west; Ellicott street, Thirtieth place to Linnean avenue: Thirtieth place, Ellicott street to 420 feet north: Thirty-ninth street, Garrison to Harr} son streets: Garfleld street, Forty-fourth street to 150 feet west, and G Tty alin @ Poripeslid